Baling-tie buckle.



G. W. PURTH.

BALING TIE BUCKLE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 12, 1912.

Patented Jan. 13, 1914.

v Illa/ 112) III 1/ III! Attorneys GEGRGE 1V. 0F CLEVELAND, (lHIO.

BALING-TIE BUCKLE.

1,1184h11t12. Specification of Letters Patent Patented Jan. 13, 191%.

Application filed June 12, 1912. Serial No. 703.308.

To all whom "it may concern. 2 is a flange 8. The flange S is disposed ap- Be it known that T, GEORGE 1V. FUn'rrI, a proximately at right angles to the head 2 citizen of the United States, residing at and extends transversely of the wing 1-. In Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and the flange 8 there is an opening 9. It has State of Ohio, have invented a new and usebeen pointed out hereinbei ore that the wing ful Baling-Tie Buckle, of which the followa upstands from one edge 01 the shank 1. ing is a specification. In the opposite edge of the shank 1 there is One object of the present invention is to a diagonal slot 10, extended into the head provide a device of the character above 2 and terminated at its inner end in an en- 55 mentioned, having novel means for holding larged seat 11 located adjacent the flange S. and receiving the ends of the binder, novel The slot 10 serves to define a prong 12 in means being provided for retaining the ends the head 2. of the binder against displacement. in operation, the body portion. of the de- A further object of the invention is to vice is placed upon the upper iiace of the provide a device of this type with Whlch the material 14, the flange 8 extending along binder may be assembled readily, there belng one side face off the material. When the a straight pull upon the device, due to the prong 7 is employed, the same is seated into action of the hinder. the material 1 1- by a hammer blow. The

With the foregoing and other objects in binder is denoted by the numeral. 15, and view, which will appear as the description a hook 16 is formed in. the binder by passpro'ceeds, the invention resides in the coming the free end 17 of the binder through bination and arrangement of parts and 1n the opening 9, from the inside. The conthe details of construction hereinafter dctaining end of the binder then passed scribed and claimed, it being understood through the slot 10 from below. hen the so that changes in the precise embodiment of continuing end of the binder rests in the invention herein disclosed can be made seat 11, the binder is bent over the flange 8, within the scope of what is claimed without thus forming a secure, hooked connection. departing from the spirit of the invention. The binder is passed around the material In the drawings,Figure 1 shows the inand is wrapped around the wing 41. The .5 vention in perspective, assembled with the wing 4: is then beaten down into approXi binder and with the contained material; mate parallelism with the shank 1, as shown Fig. 2 shows the invention in perspective; in Fig. 1-, so as to hold the wing-engaged Fig. 3 is a top plan showing the ends of end of the binder against displacement. the binder assembled with the buckle; Fig. it is to be noted that the seat 11, the wing 4 is a view similar to Fig. 3 but showing the 1-, and the prong 7, when the latter is used, wing bent down to retain one end of the are all located in alinement. Consequently, binder; Fig. 5 is a section on the line 55 the binder 15 will exert a straight pull to of Fig. 3; and Fig. 6 is a side elevation the buckle. When the hook 16 of the binder showing a modified form of the invention. 15 is placed about the prong 12, the slot 10 as The device herein disclosed is fashioned serves to guide the hook in into the seat 11, from a fiat plate of metal and comprises a and when the hook 16 is engaged in the body, the same includingashanklprovided seat 11, the bill 17 of the book will be at one end with a laterally enlarged head 2, alined .vith the opening 9, so that by exone edge of which slants toward the shank erting a pull upon the hinder, the bill 17 1 as indicated at 3. Upstanding from one of the hook will emerge from the opening edge of the shank 1 is a wing 4, the end edges 9. The converging edges 5 of the wing 4, of which converge as indicated at 5 toward together with the enlarged seats 6 serve to the body 1, there being enlarged seats 6 retain the binder against displacement, and formed at the point of juncture between the when the wing l: is beaten down into paralwing 5 and the shank 1. Depending from lelism with the shank 1, as shown in Fig. that edge of the shank 1 which carries the l, the displacement of the wing-engaging wing 4, and located adjacent the free end of 1 end of the binder will be a practical im said edge is a depending prong 7. The possibility. prong 7 is a useful but not absolutely neces- As indicated in Fig. 6, both corners of the no sary portion of the structure. part 1 may be equipped with prongs, the

Depending from the free end of the head additional prong being designated. in Fig.

6 by the reference character 7. more, the part 12 may be bent rectangularly, in its intermediate portion, to form :1 prong 1%.

Having thus described the What is claimed is 1. A bale tie buckle comprising a body provided at one end with a depending flange having an opening, the body being provided along one edge with a bendable Wing, there being a diagonal slot in the other edge of the body defining a pointed tongue in the body, the tongue being independent of the flange; the inner end of the slot being invention,

Furtherspaced from the flange and being disposed adjacent the opening.

2. A bale tie buckle oonnirising a body provided at one end With a depending flange, there being an opening in the flange and an opening in the body, the body being provided along one side edge with a bendable \ving, the prolonged line of juncture between the Wing and the body lying in a common plane With both openings.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own. I have hereto aiiiXed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

GEOR HG \V. FURTH.

\Yitnesses:

R. T. Nn'r'rmrrox, UESSIE l3. FUR'IH.

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